Monthly Recap: January 2012

January was my first full month of book blogging uninterrupted by holidays. I plan on keeping up the pace of two or three reviews per week, and it will be a mix of crime fiction with other good stories. I tend to get into reading ruts, and right now I’m in a domestic fiction/ chick lit rut. I need stories with more than a character’s psychological arc right now, so I’m settling inw ith more crime fiction. This will alsohelp me knock out some of the requirements for the Criminal Plots II Challenge ,which I have yet to read for yet. I will still review some new releases, but I’m also going to focus on backlist titles in a quest to (a) clear some books from my shelves and (b) read/ catchup on author’s previous works. What else? A few classics, to take care of another challenge I’m doing. A few literary fiction award winners or finalists, just to see what all the fuss is about. I find it hard to find literary fiction I love, so from time to time I go on hiatus from reading it if I’ve read a bad or uninteresting run of them.